Bot-Insightful is a Slack base knowledge base chatbot for questions and answer from Palo IT community

Frameworks

• Botkit
• Ngrok
• DialogueFlow

Setting up

OAuth redirection and interactive webhook URLs

This is where using the link provided by Ngrok, communication between slack and the bot can be established.

1. Log in to Slack api and go to your Apps
2. Go to Outh & Permissions and update the redirection URLs with the Ngrok link
3. Go to Event Subscriptions and update the request URL with the Ngrok link

You can inspect the traffic logs going throught Ngrok at http://127.0.0.1:4040

Event Subscription

The follow events needs to be subscribed for the bot and workspace

Go to Slack api → Event Subscriptions and assign the following subscriptions to

• Bot events
  • message.channel
  • message.im
  • message.groups
• Workspace events
  • message.im

Starting the application

1. Replace the TUNNEL_LINK environment variable with one generated with Ngrok
2. Update OAuth redirection and interactive webhook URLs
3. Run yarn dev:start